Saturday, March 11, 2017

(Essen) Early Saturday morning over a hundred armed police and vans
surrounded and sealed off the Limbecker Platz shopping centre in Essen after German
security services received a very credible threat warning of an imminent terrorist
attack.

The threat has been reported as
a potential multiple suicide bombing upon the popular Shopping centre which
attracts around 60,000 every Saturday. As
well as the Shopping centre nearby parking garages and an underground rail
station were all placed in lockdown.

A press release to the media stated:

“Yesterday, we received very serious indications from
security sources that a possible attack was planned here for today and would be
carried out. That is why we were forced to take these measures."